It started Saturday, when I was looking for some stats from a recent John Locke Foundation spotlight report on how dreadfully graduates of North Carolina public schools were faring in the community college system. Scrolling down the home page, I bumbled into an advert for the second Constitutional Workshop to be held in Hendersonville. Funny. I hadn’t heard about it. It was scheduled for November 12 from 1 to 5 p.m. It was 3:10. I scrammed.

I saw only a little over an hour, but it was enjoyable. I found the content more applicable to current issues than that presented in the first workshop, which was highly informative, but very historical. What I liked most was how when Michael Sanera asked a question, as long as you were paying attention and applying logic, you were almost doomed to get the right answer. The show is highly recommended should it come to a town near you. I do hope to catch the first part sometime.

Continuing the mis-vectored trajectory, I had the misfortune of attending a meeting in a room in the Maple Building on the AB Tech campus. My gracious hostess, a lovely lady, apologized for the clutter, explaining it had been used as campaign headquarters for supporters of the quarter-cent tax increase. I was too lame to ask how the room had managed to avoid being tax-supported.

Then, a few minutes later, I learned that Linamar would in the near future be announcing job openings. It couldn’t just yet because the corporation did not know what those jobs would be. Linamar is the Volvo affiliate for which Asheville and Buncombe County taxpayers purchased the old Volvo plant to stave off other potential buyers until Volvo could get its finances together. This triggered a flashback to something the same Michael Sanera had written about the two subjects:

Voters should receive assurances that the $7 million in new revenue from the proposed sales-tax increase would not go to pay the tax rebates given to Linamar Corporation as incentives to move into the Volvo plant, which the county recently purchased for $7 million.